13 companies receiving Zoom Apps Fund investments
Will Detwiler, Corporate Development Analyst, Zoom, looks at the 13 companies that have received funding from the Zoom Apps Fund portfolio.
On 9 December 2021, Zoom announced over a dozen more Zoom Apps fund investments as part of its US$100mn global venture fund. This fund has been created to support Zoom Apps and partners in building apps and integrations on the Zoom Developer Platform. In total, Zoom now supports more than 25 Zoom Apps Fund portfolio companies in their pursuit of building remarkable solutions.
“The Zoom developer ecosystem continues to be critical for innovating how Zoom users connect, collaborate, and get more done together,” said Colin Born, Head of Zoom Ventures. “We’re extremely proud to fund these partners so they can continue to develop high-quality solutions that meet the evolving needs of Zoom users around the world.”
Latest Zoom Apps Fund portfolio companies
The second batch of investments features 13 companies building solutions for an array of use cases. The solutions include Collaboration & Productivity, Gaming & Entertainment, Health & Wellness, Meeting Intelligence & Sales Enablement, and Interview Management & Virtual Events.
Collaboration & Productivity
- Allo is a collaborative whiteboard app built for remote and hybrid teams, enabling colleagues to be engaged and aligned as if they were in the same meeting room.
- Filo.co powers collaborative virtual meetings and events, combining Zoom meetings, document-sharing, livestreams, recordings, breakouts, whiteboards, and more, all in intuitive and customizable virtual campuses.
- Grain is the easiest way to record, transcribe, and edit Zoom meeting videos. Instantly clip moments and organize the voice of the customer in one searchable shared workspace for the whole team.
- Mio is the leading chat interoperability solution. Mio enables Zoom Chat users to collaborate with colleagues and external contacts who use Microsoft Teams, Slack, or Webex.
Gaming & Entertainment
- Dive is a remote culture app that increases employee engagement by making virtual meetings interactive, engaging and fun.
- Funomena makes games for emerging platforms, with a recent focus on fashion, dance, music, and collaborative play.
- Hermis helps solve the challenge of distributed workforce employee engagement with deeply integrated virtual applications customized for all occasions that can be used independently or with your existing video conferencing platform.
Health & Wellness
- Moxie is everybody’s home for fitness. Moxie’s technology powers hybrid fitness, enabling consumers to work out with coaches virtually and in person, without compromise.
- Wellness Coach is a digital health platform offering hundreds of coaches for 1:1 and group coaching, tools for team wellness, and over 3,000 on-demand wellness sessions for holistic well-being.
Meeting Intelligence & Sales Enablement
- Avoma is an AI meeting assistant who automates important tasks throughout the meeting’s life cycle, like preparing agendas, transcribing, summarizing notes, updating the CRM, and providing coaching insights.
- Second Nature helps teams increase sales productivity, ensuring all reps are sales-ready through practice, feedback, and certification of any sales conversation with Jenny, the AI coach.
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PeopleOps and Product Experience
- BuildBetter gives businesses product research superpowers. We’ve built the fastest product research tool to manage, organize, and share insights from things like its user interviews.
- Clovers are an intelligent interview platform that uses human and conversational intelligence to accelerate hiring, uncover bias, and put the right people in the right role — every time.
About the Zoom Apps Fund
The Zoom Apps Fund is actively investing in its developer ecosystem and looking for developers who want to build solutions that will become core to how Zoom customers meet, communicate, and collaborate.
All Zoom Apps and many applications created on the Zoom Developer Platform live on the Zoom App Marketplace, which serves as the leading source for building, discovering, and distributing apps and integrations using their developer solutions.
For more information and to apply for funding, please visit the Zoom Apps Fund page and complete their application
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